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Pablo Macadar©Raffaela Medici
Pablo Macadar©Raffaela Medici
Pablo Macadar©Raffaela Medici
Pablo Macadar©Raffaela Medici
Pablo Macadar©Raffaela Medici

Pablo Macadar

  • El Candil
  • Lamp maker
  • Montevideo, Uruguay
  • Master Artisan
Pablo Macadar Lamp maker
Contact
Spanish, English, Portuguese
Hours:
By appointment only
Pablo Macadar©Raffaela Medici

Driven to create the unexpected

  • • Pablo got into lamp making almost by accident
  • • His pieces are warm and translucent
  • • He uses local materials, keeping an eye on sustainability

Although he studied architecture, Pablo Macadar was always interested in urban art, photography in the city, landscaping, and clay constructions. It was thanks to the invitation of Raffaela Medici, a teacher in plastic arts, that he began, almost unintentionally, to make handmade lamps. “In 1999 I started making a rather irregular table lamp, a similar floor lamp and then a ceiling lamp that we called Paneira. It was a success and from then on orders began to come in. This gave an extra impulse to the fascination I experienced when I saw the result of un-designed forms, textures and structures. This is still my main driving force today," says Pablo.

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Works

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Photo: ©Pablo Macadar
Caldona

This is a ceiling lamp with a circular base. It is made with intertwined wicker arches and segments of colour in earth tones.

Photo: ©Pablo Macadar
Noctiluca

This is a wall or ceiling luminaire in an oval shape. It is made with wicker arches that meet in the centre, leaving spaces where colour appears.

Photo: ©Pablo Macadar
Nest

This lamp is a hanging light sculpture. It has a luminous irregular shape in the centre, surrounded by wickerwork curved in several planes and intertwined to form an oval shape that is illuminated on the inside.

Photo: ©Pablo Macadar
BarTabaré led panels

This one is a luminous ceiling made up of trapeze shapes, two curved sides and a texture made with rods. All around the frame of the lamp are LEDs set in a strip.

Photo: ©Pablo Macadar
Pazos

This piece is a 150x50cm rectangular eucalyptus frame that contains a slightly curved surface made with beech wood rods and coloured paper inserts, some made with canvas.

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